It is a principle in the moral law and international law that a command to carry out an immoral action is to be disobeyed.
The abortion decisions are commands to practice unjust discrimination by refusing to afford the protection of the homicide laws to a certain class of people.
In 1973, the Catholic bishops correctly declared that Catholic teaching requires that all public officials continue to carry out their duties as though the abortion decisions did not exist. They promptly forgot about this statement, and aside from handing out Communion to pro-abortion politicians, and devising rationalizations for voting pro-abortion (the “Seamless Garment”) they have barely been heard from since.
The pro-life movement should focus on electing governors and other state officials who WILL treat the Supreme Court’s abortion decisions as what they are: criminal commands—i.e., moral and legal nullities.
I only know of a tiny handful who have run for executive office on that platform.
Me.
Dr. Scott Lively, I think.
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I’ll get back to when I can think of anyone else